This book focuses specifically on the management of cardiovascular disease in elderly patients with particular frailties and in the “oldest old”. It is clearly explained how treatment in these patients differs from that in patients in their seventies who respond well to therapies and do not present frailties or organ failures. Although not young, the latter patients can be treated almost like any other patient, according to established guidelines. In contrast, the frail, compromis...
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1 Introduction. The specificity of geriatric cardiology.- 2 Epidemiology of heart disease in the elderly.- 3 Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular aging.- 4 Fr...
Sobre o autor
Andrea Ungar, MD, Ph D, FESC
Department of geriatrics and medicine
Careggi Hospital and university of Florence
Florence
Italy
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